[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] RFC: arm: add call to cleanup things before jumping into kernel

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Thu Oct 3 16:23:30 CEST 2013


Hi Albert,

On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:58 AM, Albert ARIBAUD
<albert.u.boot at aribaud.net> wrote:
> Hi Ajay,
>
> On Thu, 03 Oct 2013 14:34:19 +0530, Ajay Kumar
> <ajaykumar.rs at samsung.com> wrote:
>
>> Add infrasturcture to cleanup any of those architecture related settings
>> done for u-boot, if they can cause problem during kernel boot.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ajay Kumar <ajaykumar.rs at samsung.com>
>> ---
>
> Regardless to ma question re fixing the issue in U-Boot or Linux: does
> something prevent using the already existing cleanup_before_linux()
> function, and if not, what made you choose to create another one
> instead?

That function is in generic ARM code - I think the intent here is to
add something SoC-specific. Perhaps it should be board-specific?

Regards,
Simon


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